Earth Views during Boost Maneuver | International Space Station
Expedition 75 flight engineer and NASA astronaut Anil Menon: "Space stations can do gymnastics! Look out the Dragon window and watch us flip direction. In order to boost station, we had to change the direction it was pointing, so NASA engineers flipped it around, and, here, you can see it flipping back. This movie was made from 5500 still images that were taken last night and stitched together. The images were not changed but I did increase and decrease the frame rate to give you a better sense of the movement and Earth."
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft fired its thrusters for 18 minutes on September 25, 2026, boosting the International Space Station’s orbit.
The Cygnus XL’s gimbaled delta velocity engine was used to adjust the space station’s altitude by 1.5 miles at apogee, or highest point of station’s orbit, 0.8 miles at perigee, or lowest point of station’s orbit, placing the station in an orbit of 265.5 x 256.8 miles.
The Cygnus XL spacecraft, supporting NASA’s Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services 24 mission, arrived at the orbital complex on April 13, delivering more than 11,000 pounds of science and supplies to the space station. Cygnus will remain berthed to space station until October when it will be filled with disposal cargo, unberthed from station, and then harmlessly burn up during its destructive reentry into Earth’s atmosphere.
This reboost sets up the phasing for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission slated to launch no earlier than October 1 aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
Station Commander: Jessica Meir
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Andrey Fedyaev, Anna Kikina, Pyotr Dubrov
An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.
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